This.
We arent talking about their "budget" phone here, so Im not sure why the XR/11 is relevant. They wouldnt get 120hz or any of the advanced features for the price point (even though $400-500 Android devices somehow can pack 90 or 120hz OLEDs but I digress). The XR/11 were flat out overpriced for LCD phones in 2018-2019, regardless of how popular they were. Separating people from their money is a good business skill but nothing more. It doesnt make the product any more or less impressive
We're talking about PRO phones. $1000 and up. The iPad is "PRO" enough to get 120hz but apparently not the phone? So what "pro" features were you buying? OLED that $500 devices were using ad 1 extra camera? Because those are the current main differences between non-pro and pro; for $300/400 extra (Pro/Pro Max). Oh 1 gig of RAM, there is 50 cents of extra cost.
And let me go back to the sales mean nothing to the actual technology at issue. McDonald's sells the most burgers; they are FAR from the best burgers or even close. It's cheap, convenient and familiar. Same with the XR/11; want an iphone here's the cheapest modern one- shocker it sells the most being the cheapest modern year option (the SE is a niche model with a smaller than average screen).
Sales figures mean people are dumb enough to buy it en masse; not that it is necessarily "good/better" It lines Timmy's pockets to become the next billionaire. And that affects ANY of us how?
Apple makes the phone everyone wants, whether it is fashion or status symbol reasons; whatever the reason. That doesnt make it the best tech. And an honest company should always be trying to make the best product; the money comes with that
For some reason, there are a ton of apologists trying to tell us why we shouldnt care or dont need it; rather than why spending $1000 cant get us that. Lets ot forget Apple makes the highest industry profits despite not shipping the most devices as a company; so lets not pretend they are on razor-thin margins liek a $350-400 phone and cant give us more for the money. And how it would hurt them oh so badly if more was included for the same money.
Or typical like you dont like it "dont let the door hit you." That's a fanboy response when one cant bear to have a rational adult discussion
And yes, the average smartphone buyer IS ignorant on tech issues, sorry to break it to you. But yes, you are the "victim" in a victim mentality world we live in now, please do go on.... or rather not because I wont bother reading it.
You are still not listening (which I notice is a common trend amongst self-styled pundits who think they know better than Apple).
That iPhones are doing as well as they are despite lacking some dealbreaker feature means that that all your doomsaying here is pretty much just that. It’s not a dealbreaker for the customers buying these phones, the sky clearly isn’t falling like you claim, and it most certainly isn’t humiliating for Apple.
Instead, it stands to reason that iPhones continue to sell because they offer a great user experience despite lacking these features. Or perhaps, precisely because they lack said features.
This is the part where you attempt to understand just what it is about iPhones which appeal to the public. Apple doesn’t decide what goes into a phone just so some tech blog or some online forum member called
@1144557 can gush over it. They carefully decide what goes into the final product (and what gets cut out) to ensure that the final product offers a great user experience, and they will let the market decide for itself as to whether this decision was the right one or not.
You keep rejecting the idea of using sales as a proxy for success, but what other benchmark is there? The ultimately aim of any company is to sell more products, and if Samsung has crammed all these features into a phone which ultimately doesn’t sell that many units of, maybe that means that Samsung is the one who has screwed up and the public simply doesn’t want or care for their interpretation of innovation?
Since the very start, there has been this massive disconnect between what the more tech-savvy crowd wants in a device, vs what Apple ends up placing, and history has invariably proven Apple right and the critics wrong every single time.
And instead of trying to understand just why this is so, the critics have instead chosen to bury their head in the sand like the proverbial ostrich and double down on their criticism. Denial often goes along this line of thought.
1) I believe the next iphone will flop because it lacks feature X.
2) The next iphone goes on to sell extremely well
3) Cognitive dissonance kicks in - I can’t be wrong, so it must be the customers who are wrong
4) Cue threads like this
The difference, as I have outlined clearly in my response, and which you quoted but evidently made zero effort to understand whatsoever, is that there is no one universally accepted definition of what innovation entails.
Samsung’s interpretation of innovation involves shoving all the latest tech they have to offer into a phone. Maybe that works for you, but if sales are any indicator, there are plenty others who get turned off by this. The sales numbers pretty much speak for themselves.
Meanwhile, Apple subscribes to another version of innovation, where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and again, the sales numbers pretty much speak for themselves. Maybe Samsung is right in your book, but that doesn’t mean Apple is wrong either, because they are ultimately appealing to different user bases.
And so my advice to you, and everyone else like you, is that before you go off the rails again, close your mouth, open your eyes, and observe. There is so much that you can learn, if you have the heart for the truth and the will to see it.
. It's the best we made rah rah
